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The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent human population. Northwest Angle This little spoke jutting out of northern Minnesota was created as the result of a surveying error, and its land is completely cut off from the rest of the U.S ...
Even one festival devoted entirely to garlic of all things is strange enough. List of helicopter prison escapes: Yes, you read that right. List of incidents at Disney parks: Donald Duck's anger issues are far from being your main concern at a Disney attraction. List of inventors killed by their own invention
Image credits: factz.unheard BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a ...
Only the best of the best should attend the world's best universities. However, Stanford University apparently rejected 69% of applicants with a perfect SAT score from 2008 to 2013. Why?
If you ended up reading this as a result of being bored, your brain could be thanking you in a few minutes' time. We recently came across an Insta page called Facts By Science. It has over 566 ...
Not a comic book story arc, but the upheaval in watchmaking caused by the introduction of quartz watches. Radio hat: A strange-looking (and strange-sounding) piece of headgear. Royal Mail rubber band: One billion are used every year and often seen littering the streets of UK cities. Russian floating nuclear power station
If you're going to say you'd trade your life for your sick emperor's, make sure he doesn't get better. Roland The Farter: If only we were all a jump, whistle & fart away from posterity! Sacred Band of Thebes: An elite fighting force consisting of a hand-picked groups of 150 pairs of male lovers. Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
There's just some stuff in the world that can leaves you thinking “it can’t be true”. But a quick fact-check reveals that is (f)actually is. Not Common Facts has clocked up an impressive ...